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Rodrigo Amaral speaks to Pedro Flecha Zalba, head of the AFP Association about the private pension industry's ambitious growth plans

Sponsors have been looking at using in-house insurers to tackle their funding issues. Helen Fowler asks if this is the most effective way

Dutch pension experts ask whether trustees have shed too much responsibility, as Giovanni Legorano reports

Dutch pension experts question whether the interbank swap yield curve is the best rate to discount liabilities against, as Giovanni Legorano and Raquel Pichardo-Allison report

When hotel and restaurant business Whitbread decided to review its choice of investment funds for its DC scheme members, a diversified investment approach within one growth fund was found to be best. Laura Blows reports

More than one fifth of schemes are planning to increase the number of in-house investment staff over the coming 12-18 months in a bid to boost internal expertise and cut third-party consultancy costs.

Alison Swersky looks at the growing involvement of pension funds in the arena of microfinance

The recent falls in the stock market have led to declines in income for DC scheme members. Sebastian Cheek looks at how investors can hedge against future falls

David Davison urges administrators to take their scheme accounting process out of the dark ages

Mark Dowsey and Dave Roberts of Towers Watson consider the forthcoming EC Green Paper on pensions